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<h2>Areas of the World's Major Landmasses</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>The areas in thousands of square miles of the landmasses which exceed
10,000 square miles.
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>islands</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A named vector of length 48.</p>


<h3>Source</h3>

<p>The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1975, page 406.</p>


<h3>References</h3>


<p>McNeil, D. R. (1977)
<EM>Interactive Data Analysis</EM>.
Wiley.
</p>


<h3>Examples</h3>

<pre>
require(graphics)
dotchart(log(islands, 10),
   main = "islands data: log10(area) (log10(sq. miles))")
dotchart(log(islands[order(islands)], 10),
   main = "islands data: log10(area) (log10(sq. miles))")
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